AT SANTIAGO DE CHILE. 



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Remarks. 



Extremely blurred and indutinct. Measures by daylight. Tiic star is not larger than 7.8th magnitude, instead of 6th magnitude, as in the Wash- 

 ington Catalogue. 



Results. 



Mean .... Five trantits . . 



li. m. 

 Correction for chronometer at 3j . . 



h. m. a. 



3j 30.70 



m. s. 

 4 40.90 



h. m. 



30.54 



+ 8.298 



Santiago sit), time S. P. 



. . =242.10 



h. m. n. 

 . . 30 49.80 



A pal 031 0.56 



DECEMBER 4, 1S50. 



At night the star was too distant for observation. 



DECEMBER 5, 185O. 



The it ir xvn srcn loo dimly for differential measurements with the equatorial. 

 Diameter of Venus from a mean of 10 measures at Oft. 30m. sid. time, 3.S38 rev. Corrected diameter, GO". 91. 



DECEMBER 29, 185O. 



Unable to ilistinpuiah the comparing star in the morning twilight. 



DECEMBER 31, 1K.-.O. 

 Comparing star iinilislin^uislKiltle in the morning twilight. 



JANUARY 5, 1851. 



Only the morning* of the 1st (il civil) and 5ih (6th civil) of January have lieou clear ; but it has not been possible to distinguish tiic comparing 

 star, when Venus was sufficiently above the hori/on for observations. 



